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Carrion production rate

Source: R/components.R
getCarrionProduction.Rd

This is the rate in grams/year at which the rest of the system produces carrion biomass. The production comes from three sources:

Usage

getCarrionProduction(params, n = params@initial_n, rates = getRates(params))

Arguments

params

MizerParams

n

A matrix of current species abundances (species x size)

rates

A list of rates as returned by getRates()

Value

A vector with named entries "external", "gear_mort" and "discards", each given the rate at which carrion biomass is produced by these sources in grams per year.

Details

  1. animals that have died by natural causes other than predation ("ext_mort"),

  2. animals killed by the fishing gear ("gear_mort"),

  3. discards from fishing ("discards").

The function returns a vector with the individual contributions. These can be summed with sum() to get the total production rate.

See also

getCarrionConsumption(), carrion_dynamics(), getDetritusProduction()